UPPER MERION — Missing 10-month-old Saanvi Venna has been found dead as confirmed by Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman at a press conference at the Upper Merion Township Building this afternoon.

The body was found at 4:40 a.m. Friday inside of a sauna in a basement bathroom in the gymnasium at the Marquis Apartments in Upper Merion.

Raghunanean Yaneadamuri has been taken into custody and charged with murder, kidnapping, roberry, abuse of corpse, and theft.

Law enforcements officials learned over the last few hours that he had planned to kidnap the baby and hold her for ransom. According to Ferman, a ransom note demanding $50,000 was found in the family’s apartment. His only contact with the family was through the ransom note.

The killer entered the apartment and killed the grandmother, 61-year-old Satyavathi Venna, and left with the baby who he suffocated with a hankerchief.

“The grandmother died trying to safe her grandaughter,” said Ferman.

ORIGINAL STORY:KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) — An infant girl who disappeared from her family’s suburban Philadelphia apartment earlier this week has been found dead.

Ten-month-old Saanvi Venna (SAHN’-vee VEHN’-ah) had been missing since Monday, the day her 61-year-old grandmother was found slain in the family’s Upper Merion Township apartment.

Authorities say a person of interest is in custody, but the person was not identified by police.

Saanvi’s parents moved to the area in June after having lived in Texas, Ohio and Michigan since moving to the U.S. from India in 2007.

Officers with search dogs scoured the area surrounding the apartment complex in the days since her grandmother’s body was discovered.

The Montgomery County coroner says the grandmother, Satyavathi Venna (saht-yah-VAH’-thee VEHN’-ah), died of cuts to her neck and chest.